When you're sprung and in a club, wanting to bang somebody, but the only chick DTF is ugly with a butter face. You take a BUTTER SHOT or two to get ready to bang her. Butter shots are typically high in alcohol content, like doubles or everclear.

James: Man I want to get some
Dwayne: Dude you could bang that butter face ugly chick
James: I'll down a BUTTER SHOT or two, and I'll be ready to go

A magical beverage, derived from butter roots, and wild field grains. Often tasting like buttery heaven. It contains the magical chemical EtOH, which is said to give the drinker the ability to charm others, and resist physical pain. These powers come at the price of lowered dexterity, and heightened possibility of physical harm.

She often sipped on a flask of buttershots, while watching the others suffer the bitter tasting bottle of cuttysark, gulp by gulp.